The Longer Read
Welcome to The Longer Read. Published periodically, this feature explores important and timely topics in more depth than a typical Sufficiency & Wellbeing Magazine article. We hope you enjoy!
February 2026
January 2026
The Prospects of the Zionist Project - Part 1
One hundred forty-four years have passed since the construction of the first Zionist settlement in Palestine. One hundred twenty-three years since the publication of Theodor Herzl’s second book, Altneuland, in which he envisioned the borders of the future “Jewish State” as follows: from the Palestinian-Egyptian border in the south, to Saida (Sidon) and …
The Unraveling Order
The “unified global order” never rested on unity. It rested on a set of payment rails, security guarantees, maritime chokepoints, legal regimes, and institutional norms that made Western preferences feel like neutral reality. For a while, that architecture produced a kind of planetary smoothness. Trade expanded, debt structured development, and the Glob…